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Macron refused Russian COVID test in Putin trip over DNA theft fears – sources

11 Feb 2022 11 Feb 2022

By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron refused a Kremlin request that he take a Russian COVID-19 test when he arrived to see President Vladimir Putin this week, to prevent Russia getting hold of Macron’s DNA, two sources in Macron’s entourage told Reuters. As a result, the visiting French head of state …

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EU investigates reports of menstrual disorders after mRNA COVID shots

11 Feb 2022 11 Feb 2022

(Reuters) – The European Medicines Agency’s safety committee said on Friday it was reviewing reports of heavy menstrual bleeding and absence of menstruation from women who had received COVID vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. The assessment was in view of reports of menstrual disorders after receiving either of the two vaccines, both based on messenger …

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Italy’s Catholic Church faces pressure for independent abuse inquiry

11 Feb 2022 11 Feb 2022

By Philip Pullella and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – At a trial under way in Sicily, a 28-year-old Italian is seeking justice against a man he accuses of forcing him to perform sex acts before going on to become a priest. The victim says the alleged abuse, committed more than a decade ago when he …

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Renovation of Nazi ally’s Kosovo house causes ire

11 Feb 2022 11 Feb 2022

MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) – The renovation of a house in Kosovo that belonged to a minister in a pro-Nazi government during World War Two has prompted an outcry, with Germany warning of historical “whitewashing” and the European Union and United Nations halting the project. The three floor red brick house in Mitrovica, built in the …

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Ukraine rejects Russian pressure in talks, Moscow says zero progress

11 Feb 2022 11 Feb 2022

By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Friday it would not yield to pressure from Moscow to negotiate with Russian-backed separatist leaders, after the latest four-nation talks ended with no breakthrough on ending eight years of fighting. Russia’s envoy to the talks said there was “zero” progress and accused Ukraine of putting forward absurd …

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‘Born free’: Somaliland says China can’t dictate to it over Taiwan

11 Feb 2022 11 Feb 2022

By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) – China cannot dictate who Somaliland can have relations with as it was a sovereign nation and “born free”, the foreign minister of the breakaway Somali region said on Friday during a trip to Taiwan which has been condemned by Beijing. Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 but has …

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Quad ministers address Indo-Pacific ‘coercion’, climate, COVID

11 Feb 2022 11 Feb 2022

By Humeyra Pamuk and Kirsty Needham MELBOURNE (Reuters) – The United States, Australia, Japan and India pledged on Friday to deepen cooperation to ensure the Indo-Pacific region was free from “coercion”, a thinly veiled swipe at China’s economic and military expansion. Foreign ministers of the so-called Quad group, meeting in the Australian city of Melbourne, …

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Italy’s Mount Etna lights up night sky in spectacular eruption

11 Feb 2022 11 Feb 2022

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Mount Etna, Europe’s highest and most active volcano, erupted in spectacular fashion late on Thursday, lighting up the night sky with explosions and bright red molten lava. The eruption centred on the volcano’s southeastern crater, at a height of around 2,900 metres, sent ash and plumes of smoke 8 km into …

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Four civilians killed as French troops clash with Islamist militants in Burkina Faso

11 Feb 2022 11 Feb 2022

PARIS (Reuters) -Four civilians were caught in cross fire after French troops supported with an attack helicopter killed 10 Islamist militants in Burkina Faso, the French military said in a statement on Thursday. France has thousands of troops operating across the Sahel region as part of a mission to combat violence by Islamist militant groups …

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Scholz warns Russia of consequences if it invades Ukraine

10 Feb 2022 10 Feb 2022

BERLIN (Reuters) -Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned Russia of “serious” economic and political consequences should it ramp up military aggression toward Ukraine, while adding that Germany and its allies were ready for dialogue with Moscow and wanted peace. With Russia holding military exercises in Belarus https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/wrapup-1-russia-starts-belarus-military-drills-amid-new-diplomacy-ukraine-2022-02-10 and the Black Sea following its troop buildup near Ukraine, …

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